Learn how a magnetic field may have helped shape the Solar System, embedding traces of ancient magnetism within a meteorite ...

The third known visitor from beyond the solar system is on its way out, retracing the path that brought it past the Sun.

IT LOOKS LIKE A STAR THE SIZE OF OUR SOLAR SYSTEM, AND SOMETHING IS EATING IT FROM THE INSIDE There is a particular tone ...

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NASA's record-breaking New Horizons spacecraft has awoken from a 321-day hibernation in "good health" as it resumes unprecedented science at the solar system's edge.

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This story is part of Short Wave's series Space Camp about all the weird, wonderful things happening in the universe. Check out the rest of the series. If you were born in the last century you might ...

Asteroids are rocky objects in our solar system, but they’re too small to be considered planets. They range in size from 30 feet across (10 meters) up to about 600 miles (970 kilometers), and most ...